1930's Government and Politics | Press Statements and Related Correspondence on the Use of Troops to Control the So-called Bonus Marchers

Press statement, Correspondence

By: Herbert Hoover; Luther H. Reichelderfer

Date: July 1932

Source: Hoover, Herbert, and Luther H. Reichelderfer. Press statements and related correspondence on the use of troops to control the so-called Bonus Marchers. July 28–29, 1932. In Myers, William Starr, ed. The State Papers and Other Public Writings of Herbert Hoover. Vol. 2. Doubleday, Doran & Company, New York and Garden City, 1934; New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1970, 242–45.

About the Author: Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) was president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A civil engineer by training, his international reputation as a humanitarian and administrator resulted in his appointment in 1914 as chief Allied relief administrator during World War I (1914–1918). He became secretary of commerce in 1921 and the Republican presidential candidate in 1928. His...